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Best Practices For Text

May 16, 20261 min read

  • Include your question in first message: https://dontasktoask.com/
    • Alternative version, describe your problem straight away: https://jkhub.org/dontasktoask/
    • Alternative version, naked pinging: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_naked_pings
  • Format your question properly: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
  • Actually specify what your issue is, don’t ask why your bodges don’t work: https://xyproblem.info/
  • Actually specify what your issue is, don’t just say that it doesn’t work: https://shuvmaybe.github.io/doesntwork/
    • Alternative version: https://itdidnt.work/
  • Don’t just say ‘Hi’ if you want to ask a question: https://nohello.net/en/
    • Alternative version (text only): https://sbmueller.github.io/nohello/
      • Alternative version (long example): https://nohello.club/
  • Make your questions self contained: https://sscce.org/
    • Stackoverflow alternative: https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example
  • Conventional comments, state your intent clearly: https://conventionalcomments.org/
  • What have you tried? https://web.archive.org/web/20120712195916/http://mattgemmell.com/2008/12/08/what-have-you-tried/
  • Asking good questions: https://josh.works/better-questions
    • Alternative (with pictures, well explained): https://quick-answers.kronis.dev/
      • Alternative (longer article): https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions/

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